Any chance we could have thumbnails show up on the index page?

Edit: On second thought, thumbnails work as long as your post is an image you uploaded. But it doesn't pull up og:images it seems, leading to those blank squares.

If I'm in a community (particularly lemmy.world) and I'm inside of a post, there's no easy way to get back to the community. the top level link brings me to the instance homepage, instead of the community. So far the only way I see to do it is to click the tiny link inside of the post that brings me to the community the post was from. Additionally, I don't see an easy way to "know" what community I'm in when I'm inside of the post other than the same thing.

Seems like communities should still show the banner even when in the post, even if it's a comrpessed banner compared to the post list banner.

Did the whole system just go down for a few minutes? I kept getting an API error and it kept switching to HTTP (not HTTPS) ... Seems a bit snappier though now that its back up

Is there a server status web page for future reference?

I've been trying to post something in c/casualconversation, but after clicking 'post', it gets stuck - spinning for hours, actually, and my message won't get through.

I've noticed that despite setting my default view to "All" in the user settings, my default view on the home page appears to be local.

It's not the worst thing ever, since hitting All is not a problem, just interesting it doesn't seem to work, unless I'm missing something!

Edit: It appears to have fixed itself, so maybe there was some time for the setting to kick in, although the local tab shows highlighted.

Can I just quickly mention that I for one really appreciate the work done by @ruul to keep this instance working as well as it does , thank you.

There should be a way to set "my posting language is English" in my profile settings, so that it's automatically set to English when I post, evern single time, unless I go out of my way to choose something different for a particular post.

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Known Issue: Probably a lemmy-wide issue. When new users sign up, there's no error message for "username has been taken", "username too short/long" or any other exception. You have to do trial-and-error to figure out how to get past the sign-in screen. Some sort of exception handling and user message would help greatly.

Immediate workaround would be to put something on the signup page to explain this ("username has to be between X to Y characters; if you see a spinning icon forever, chances are the username was taken already")

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Enhancement requests: Again, might be better addressed lemmy-wide, but as a mod, I think there is no way to "sticky" or "pin" a reply to an existing thread, so that it stays at the top. This would be useful for "official" replies in the voice of a moderator, and I imagine it will be useful in future if mods ever need to lock posts and have to explain why.

I think lemmy.world need to up the "Federation worker count" under the server settings. The more data that needs to be federated, the higher this number should be.

I noticed upvotes are behaving weirdly sometimes, like the upvote count of a post will shuffle between random numbers like 55 then 735 then 345 then 56 then 902 then 736 then 4 then 57 then 346 then 251 then 58. (Yeah, I noticed some of these are counsecutive which makes me think we're somehow upvoting on different counts and it shows the most recently upvoted.) Also sometimes when I upvote a comment my upvote disappears and sometimes it reappears later... why ?

How long should it take for a community to fully federate? There is !usmlr@lemmy.ml which is missing posts from the last 3 days vs https://lemmy.ml/c/usmlr.

Duh. I couldn't log in because I'd entered my password incorrectly.
It would be nice if Lemmy told me, though, rather than just showing me an infinite spinner.

~~I can't log in on Firefox Mac or Safari Mac, but I can log in with Firefox Windows and Jeroba Android. On Mac, when I hit the Login button it just spins. No cookies are being set, and as far as I can tell there's no network activity. My password is less than 32 characters, which I read somewhere can cause issues.

edit: I tried spoofing Windows and Linux User-Agents on the Mac, but it didn't work.
edit2: I can log in from Safari now. Seems to be a Firefox configuration error, but I don't know how to troubleshoot it.~~

Issue:

Is it just me, or has "Hot" not refreshed with any new posts in over a day? I know there are posts coming in, but my Subscribed, Local, and All feeds have been static when sorting by "Hot".

edit: I think it's fixed on my end. I'm finally seeing newer stuff when sorting by Hot

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Enhancement requests: Not sure if this is better addressed lemmy-wide or here, but: New users may not know the difference between instances. Would having the "Communities" tab default to All instances be better than Local instances?

• (low priority) on this page: https://lemmy.world/post/36032 the vote count is all over the place each time I view it while logged in. I promise I'm not such a snowflake that votes really matter to me. I'm more concerned about the way this will impact new user confidence on the platform when their engagement feedback is questionable. Someone that doesn't know any better may assume that the fluctuating numbers they see are faked to improve engagement and retention. Over the hours since I made the linked post, the votes seem to fluctuate between something like 20-25 on some page views, 40-60 on others, some are around 200-220, and others are ranging from 400-420. It seems random and uncorrelated as far as I can tell. Like selecting a reply from someone on my account, and viewing, does not seem to show the count as it was when they replied. I thought maybe it was fluctuating based on Local versus All instances, but that doesn't seem consistent either. Just scrolling down the page and back up to the counter after a few minutes can live update and change the count. I am viewing from a Chromium derivative Vanadium on mobile/Graphene OS (AOSP/live updates and current).

• secondly, I tried reposting a short 32 second mp4 clip and get an error, something about json. Is there a way to do video here? I could try setting up an account on your peertube if that works for cross posting, or I could use my workstation to convert the file to a gif if that will work. What is the best way to post something like this? (https://old.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/yxz1jl/upcycled_soapbox_life/)

• I've tried to post this message a half dozen times here and have had no luck...until now. Okay, this one is probably because I got to this page after clicking the link to here from the link on the following page: https://lemmy.world/post/37906 For some reason this sequence makes this page (I am editing this post on now) act weird. It adds the 'you need to login' banner at first but then it goes away. The prompt to add a comment comes up, but oddly the preview button is missing in this instance. To make this comment stick to the post I had to go to the Lemmy.world homepage and select this post directly. Then I could copy and paste the message, could see the preview button, and posting stuck. If you see this, editing works too,.. apparently.

Just joined! Thanks!

One small thing i would add for sign up is giving a message about waiting for being approved for the community, i was confused that it sent me back to the homepage until reading the docs.

When logging in, I'm temporarily in another user's account. Last one was "Sean". I'm not sure if there's some sort of cache I'm hitting or what, after a few seconds or when I interact with something it fixes itself, but it's a bit annoying.

Issue with lemmy in general: there's no error message when your username is taken, or password doesn't meet the requirements. I had to figure out by trial and error why my application didn't go through

Getting lots of 'timeout' today.

• The message about choosing a language when making a post is not clear. Like, is selecting a language good or bad for visibility versus using the default "undetermined."

• What are the best practices for uploading an image on a post here, what about technical posts that need a gallery, gifs, mp4, etc.?

• as far as possible sub communities: astrophotography, telescopes, bicycle, bikewrench, arduino, esp32, hardware hacking, fedora, Linux hardware, and electrical engineering were some I regularly browsed or participated in on deddit. Not that these are needed, but I wish I could drag these communities over here

Enhancement request:

I don't know if this is a Lemmy.world thing, or a Lemmy-in-general thing, but I'd love the ability to create "meta communities" (I don't care the nomenclature); i.e., something where I could make a METAFOO@lemmy.world but that combined FOO@lemmy.world, FOO@lemmy.ml, FOO@[insert other fed server], and BAR@[insert other fed server] and so forth so I could have a bit more granularity/control in viewing communities.

EDIT: adding another example combination to show that the FOO doesn't have to stay the same across the combined communities.

I like the new icon!

First off, thank you for starting this instance. This may already be solved as I am a humble ex-redditor and only recently dabbled into the fedaverse since the twitter exodus.

But when I try and connect a subscribed community to my mastodon feed, I would like to see the post. Currently, the post and every comment from that post is aggregated into my mastodon feed.

Is there a way to just see the post headline?

Edit: spelling

Some issues I've seen, mostly related to interactions with mastodon. I generally use Mastodon more so I've been playing with it.

1. I can follow a lemmy community on my mastodon account but all the posters do not show their avatar. (actually i just checked again and my avatar shows up, but others don't, so perhaps there is a long delay?)

2. I replied to a lemmy post on mastodon, and it showed up in lemmy, but when I'm logged in to lemmy and I try to post a reply to that it never publishes, the "post" button becomes the spinner and never makes the reply. This post for reference. This is the only one that feels like a bug.

3. when someone on another lemmy instance makes a post on our community, a mastodon toot goes out, but it links to their post on their community. It makes it a little odd to follow a link and it takes me to another instance than the one hosting the community. Maybe this isn't a bug, just kinda annoying, kinda fediverse in general it's tough to bounce between instances. Example. Ok making that link, it's clear that the "post" originated from the instance. I guess this is just how it works. Message Board systems are a bit more tricky than twitter-style systems.

4. When I make a post, it's got a warning Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content. and I have no idea what this is talking about.

5. I wish the community page would let me sort the rows by Subscribers.

I see a couple other comments about sign up issues and I’m having the same. Don’t see anything in my spam folder, though. Both submit buttons on the sign up/login pages just spin endlessly the last couple days. Someone said they managed to fix it by using "forgot password" on the login page but clicking that button does nothing. name’s same here as on midwest.social.